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On Spending Cuts, the Focus Shifts to How, Not If

With across-the-board federal spending cuts likely to begin Friday, a growing question is how much discretion the Obama administration has to soften their blow.

Constrained by laws governing the way it spends money approved by Congress, the White House said there is little it can do to spare Americans what it said would be a range of hardships unless Congress finds a way to delay or cancel the $85 billion of cuts, known as the...

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